Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains first to say that neither Marxism , nor Empirical Socialism in the Webbs ' versions of it , anticipated Keynes 's General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money . |
| 2 | Like affection , status relates to our feelings about other peoples ' feelings for us . |
| 3 | But if he can leave all this behind , and wearing only ordinary casual clothes still keep up his peers ' belief in him , then the Town Boys are likely to accept him . |
| 4 | A salesman at one licensed dealer used to read his clients ' horoscopes for them . |
| 5 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 6 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 7 | The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble . |
| 8 | Greene found subjects ' performance in her sorting task supported this claim . |
| 9 | In the case of definite pronouns , we have shown that mapping from roles to roles and from roles to names can be influenced by manipulating the experimental task and , presumably subjects ' perception of it . |
| 10 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 11 | With the god 's gesture and the seers ' reaction to it , this emphasises the designer 's Pindaric approach to the story . |
| 12 | This area was selected for study because of the authors ' familiarity with it , the adequate rural-urban contrast and the availability of a suitable image . |
| 13 | He does n't do the engineers ' jobs for them , nor tell the personnel professionals how to he more professional . |
| 14 | The young rabbi spoke about the tasks which God had given his prophet and Moses ' reaction to them . |
| 15 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 16 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 17 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 18 | Could you tell me where to apply for a full birth certificate with all my parents ' details on it ? |
| 19 | His cruel treatment of her in Act III , Scene I is not directed at her personally , but at the ruthlessness of Claudius ' power over her and treatment of her . |
| 20 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 21 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 22 | Or , to turn these questions around , what relevance do these intra-collegial debates over the ‘ proper place of general practice ’ have for everyday medical work and the participants ' views of it ? |
| 23 | While our discussion in this chapter is of the doctrine of neutrality as such , Rawls ' treatment of it will serve to illustrate the problems involved . |
| 24 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 25 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 26 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 27 | The bargaining power of enterprises is enhanced by their strategic role within their own sectors and governments ' dependence on them for implementation of policy . |
| 28 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 29 | The discussion of national intelligence and the psychologists ' debates over it did not initiate the idea of a system of education specifically designed to foster talent , to prevent waste of intelligence as a national resource . |
| 30 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |